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href="../psalms/79.htm" title="Psalm 79">◄</a> Psalm 80 <a href="../psalms/81.htm" title="Psalm 81">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/psalms/80.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="d">For the choir director: A psalm of Asaph, to be sung to the tune “Lilies of the Covenant.”</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/80-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Please listen, O Shepherd of Israel,</p><p class="line2">you who lead Joseph’s descendants like a flock.</p><p class="line1">O God, enthroned above the cherubim,</p><p class="line2">display your radiant glory</p><p class="line2"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/80-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>to Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh.</p><p class="line1">Show us your mighty power.</p><p class="line2">Come to rescue us!</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/80-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Turn us again to yourself, O God.</p><p class="line2">Make your face shine down upon us.</p><p class="line2">Only then will we be saved.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/80-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>O LORD God of Heaven’s Armies,</p><p class="line2">how long will you be angry with our prayers?</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/80-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>You have fed us with sorrow</p><p class="line2">and made us drink tears by the bucketful.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/80-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>You have made us the scorn<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a> of neighboring nations.</p><p class="line2">Our enemies treat us as a joke.</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/80-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Turn us again to yourself, O God of Heaven’s Armies.</p><p class="line2">Make your face shine down upon us.</p><p class="line2">Only then will we be saved.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/80-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>You brought us from Egypt like a grapevine;</p><p class="line2">you drove away the pagan nations and transplanted us into your land.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/80-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>You cleared the ground for us,</p><p class="line2">and we took root and filled the land.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/80-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Our shade covered the mountains;</p><p class="line2">our branches covered the mighty cedars.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/80-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>We spread our branches west to the Mediterranean Sea;</p><p class="line2">our shoots spread east to the Euphrates River.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a></p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/80-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>But now, why have you broken down our walls</p><p class="line2">so that all who pass by may steal our fruit?</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/80-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>The wild boar from the forest devours it,</p><p class="line2">and the wild animals feed on it.</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/80-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Come back, we beg you, O God of Heaven’s Armies.</p><p class="line2">Look down from heaven and see our plight.</p><p class="line1">Take care of this grapevine</p><p class="line2"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/80-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>that you yourself have planted,</p><p class="line2">this son you have raised for yourself.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/80-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>For we are chopped up and burned by our enemies.</p><p class="line2">May they perish at the sight of your frown.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/80-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Strengthen the man you love,</p><p class="line2">the son of your choice.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/80-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Then we will never abandon you again.</p><p class="line2">Revive us so we can call on your name once more.</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/80-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Turn us again to yourself, O LORD God of Heaven’s Armies.</p><p class="line2">Make your face shine down upon us.</p><p class="line2">Only then will we be saved.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">80:6 </span><span class="ft">As in Syriac version; Hebrew reads </span><span class="it">the strife.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">80:11 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">west to the sea, . . . east to the river.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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